Rise from the sword

Chapter 773 Minister of Finance: I can't do it anymore, resign and run away!

March 26.

Including Fatty Qiu and Old Du, the Allied Joint Staff Meeting ended.

The meeting made a decision.

All parties formed a joint force, dispatched a hundred divisions, and under the cover of [-] aircraft, launched an attack on Caen and Rennes again, completely occupied these two cities, and pushed the front to the capital of France, the world metropolis .

Paris.

To this end, the Allied forces even mobilized troops stationed in the British mainland, as well as air defense forces.

During the meeting, Fatty Qiu, one of the two giants, said that the British Empire had made huge sacrifices for the Allied Forces and needed compensation, but Lao Du ignored him at all.

There is still a way out for the United States. Although the way back is very tragic and the ending will be tragic, it is also a way out, but the British Empire really has no way out. Mustache publicly clamored that all war criminals in the British Empire wanted to wipe out the empire on which the sun never sets from the root .

After bouncing around for a while, Fatty Qiu saw that America ignored him, so he settled down.

Simultaneously,

He also became more determined in his heart, the decision to pit the United States after the war.

In the current international form, based on the overall interests of Auglu Saxon, after the war, the best choice is to unite all the forces of Millikin, England, and Europa, gather breakthrough technologies, unite and exclude foreign countries, and compete with the other side to regain their belongings. their civilized world.

But at that time, the British Empire was probably only a regional power.

Not even sure.

The British Empire, which is now in ruins, is afraid that after the war it will be reduced to a racetrack for American capital, kidnapped by the economic and military United States, and completely reduced to other people's little brother, a pawn.

Why did the pound fall so badly, only one-tenth of what it was before the war? In addition to the bombing of the homeland and heavy industrial losses, there is another important reason. The United States swallowed up the core industrial wealth and funds of the British Empire.

But if you cooperate with the other side,
Distant and close attack,

Then, Europa may still be the territory of the British Empire.

As for why there are two giants, it is naturally because the beard is already cold.

It wasn't that he was killed by Mustache, although he wanted to, but he didn't have that ability yet, but because of the disastrous defeat in the decisive battle on the front line, several main armored armies were surrounded and wiped out, which caused a little chaos inside, and then, Big Beard was killed by his own people up.

Without the suppression of the beard, the internal conflicts caused by successive failures suddenly broke out. One of the original Big Three collapsed in an instant, falling apart into several.

And they have different opinions.

Some people want to fight to the death with Mustache, and would rather die than surrender, some want to negotiate peace with Mustache, and some even plan to directly join the Continental Alliance formed by Mustache to fool various countries, but what is interesting is that among these different opinions, there is It is rare to have a unity.

Qi Qi intends to renege on his debts, refuse to recognize the previous deal, and drive the devils out.

One of the stronger ones plans to mobilize troops to fight to the death with Tsutomu Tanaka and Kotaro Ito.

The split-like decision made the other allied forces dumbfounded.

The meeting also reached a resolution.

Launch a new round of military expansion again.

Today, like the last European war, Mustache has a large number of troops liberated from the Eastern Front, including a large number of servants, and they are servants with strong combat effectiveness. Therefore, the Allied forces need more and more troops to maintain their strength Advantage.

The next day, March 27th.

The documents of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were submitted to the office of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

"Going to attack."

Looking at the report on the budget, the finance minister was about to cry.

The two battles between Caen and Rennes not only failed to achieve the set goals, but also consumed far more funds than expected.

The two battles lasted for three months, including the logistics during the period, domestic infrastructure investment to expand production capacity, factory investment, and the government’s purchase of raw materials from abroad. The total cost of funds was 300 billion US dollars more than expected.

reached $300 billion.

This figure is already the gross domestic product of the United States before the war.

Although the U.S. dollar has already depreciated significantly compared to before the war. In just three years, the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to gold has more than doubled, and the U.S. dollar has become the international currency second only to gold, but this is also a huge sum. America can't even afford spending.

Compared with the current GDP of the United States, half of the GDP has been consumed in these three months!

One of the reasons for such a large consumption is that the price of advanced weapons and equipment is getting more and more expensive. Taking jet fighters as an example, the ex-factory price of a latest, second-generation jet fighter is as high as 100 million U.S. dollars .

Advanced and complex technology has greatly increased production costs.

120 per day, that's 2000 million US dollars per day.

Then, after three months of fighting, there were not a single survivor on the front line.

Too advanced technology not only increases the factory cost, but also greatly reduces the reliability. According to statistics, more than half of the jet fighters are lost for non-combat reasons.

And ammunition.

Offensive operations consume more ammunition than equipment costs,
Those large-caliber shells and heavy artillery barrels are notoriously expensive.A small David armor-piercing shell is a fighter jet, and an American cannon armor-piercing shell is two propeller fighter jets.One ground penetrator is two propeller fighter jets.

Then, for another attack, dispatching [-] divisions and [-] planes, how much money will it cost?
The Minister of Finance was a little dizzy.

There is still Paris to fight behind, and the difficulty is not less than that of Caen.

If you continue to fight like this, even if you win, even if the United States has more than [-]% of the world's gold reserves, it will inevitably go bankrupt, and the US dollar will inevitably experience an uncontrollable avalanche devaluation after the war.

"Do you want to expand the army?"

"It's still 500 million!"

Seeing the next page of the document, the Minister of Finance jumped up.

There are as many as 500 million military personnel directly under the United States and directly serving the war. These people will consume 25 billion U.S. dollars in funds every month, and another 500 million.

Another attack,

Another military expansion.

Still care about the economy?
Going straight to bankruptcy?
Then, what's the point of winning?
It’s okay if there is no other side. As the only victorious country, the United States has enough space and time to recover, but at this pace, after the war, the size of the national debt may increase to [-] US dollars, coupled with economic shrinkage , the financial revenue is reduced, even if the annual financial revenue is [-]% interest, the annual financial revenue is low, and the interest payment alone is estimated to be insufficient. Then, the dollar depreciates greatly, the reputation collapses, and the Ministry of Finance cannot produce so much gold. The world Currency must give way to the other side.

Unless, the other side is really all fools and brain-dead.

This is obviously impossible.

"minister?"

Looking at the Minister of Finance who hasn't signed for a long time, the secretary on the side urged.

This is a plan approved by both the President and the Congress, and it is not something that the Minister of the Treasury can object to.

Glancing at the secretary, the Minister of Finance signed his name without hesitation.

Afterwards, he handed the documents to the secretary, and he picked up the suit behind him, ran out of the office without looking back, and rushed all the way to the parking lot. The Minister of Finance got into his special car, urged the driver, and rushed all the way to the presidential palace.

He is going to resign.

Even if the president does not approve, he will not do it.

The Minister of Finance, whoever wants to do it, he can't do it anyway.

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Tokyo.

The underground palace.

"Your Majesty the Locust."

The attendant, Officer Wu, came in from the tunnel with a pale face, and lowered his head to report to Tian Huang, who was also pale:
"The No.90 Seventh Brigade has defected."

"97 Brigade."

Devil Tianlocust was taken aback.

Because there are large-scale rebellion against guerrillas all over the country. With the support of the enemy, these guerrillas have advanced weapons and equipment and are very strong. Some of them are leading, and their combat effectiveness even exceeds that of ordinary infantry regiments, which makes the locust army very headache.

and also,

Some foreign armed forces also joined in, including many retired soldiers and even officers.

However, the operations of division-level troops will be directly interfered by the enemy. Attack aircraft and coastal gunboats will follow each other, harassing them day and night, and they will suffer heavy losses before they get close to the enemy.

Faced with such a situation, the Locust Army had to reorganize,
Completely abandon the formation of divisions and regiments, and also abandon the formation of 3000-man regiments, but change to a new brigade formation of 5000 people, with five brigades under its jurisdiction, to deal with guerrillas, and can also effectively avoid enemy air attacks and coastal forces. Gunboat shelling.

The 97th Brigade is one of the most recently formed brigades.

"Where's the head of the brigade?"

The locust asked.

In order to ensure the loyalty of the troops, the high-level officials, including the head of the brigade, are all so-called wanted war criminals on the other side, and there is no possibility of rebellion.

"Crushed by jade."

Officer Wu bowed his head and answered.

"Crushed by jade..."

The locust's complexion was even paler.

The so-called broken jade is a term that only appeared recently, just to make it sound better.

This refers to being killed or captured by subordinates as a token of surrender to the enemy.

"Including the other captains, they were also crushed by the jade."

Officer Wu continued.

"idiot···"

"A disgrace to bushido."

The locust finally couldn't bear it, and cursed:

"what happened?"

It is not uncommon to encounter troop mutiny before, and there have been more and more recently, so that the size of the troop has been reduced by half, but there has never been a brigade mutiny, which requires very strong organizational skills.

Guerrillas don't have this ability.

"The people from the Far East have intervened."

Officer Wu explained:

"According to the information obtained from the investigation, the 97th Brigade took the enemy's transport ship and headed for the Far East."

"Far East···"

The locust's complexion has turned pale.

Ito Kotaro and Tanaka Tsutomu, these two former generals of the empire, are now the biggest traitors of the empire and his biggest enemies. The two raised their flags to openly oppose the locust system. Most of the locust army who defected went to here.

A brigade of 5000 people is already traumatic for today's locust army.

and predictably,

Next, there will be more troops defecting, which is what the locust fears most.

Without the army, he is nothing.

"Go down."

After a long time, the locust regained a little color, waved his hand, and signaled Officer Wu to leave.

"Hi··"

Officer Wu lowered his head and reincarnated to leave the dark underground palace.

At the last moment when the door was closed, the personal bodyguard of the locust, Officer Wu of the Guards, turned his head and glanced at the locust through the gap. An inexplicable light flickered in his pupils, and his hand touched his pocket. A secret letter inside.

It was a secret letter from his subordinates.

A secret letter from Kotaro Ito.

As the personal guard of the locust, he has never left the locust, and has never participated in foreign wars. Naturally, he is not a serious war criminal.

The reward price is only one gram of gold.

At this price, the other side obviously has no intention of killing him.

On Ito's side, the reason why so many people came to seek refuge in the past was because the treatment was really good, they had money and supplies, they lived comfortably and freely, and they didn't have to die.

Walking out of the lower palace, the locust guard's eyes fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)